Homebrew – How to Install pdfimages in El Capitan

As of right now there is no gexiv2 brew formula but I've created and submitted one which will hopefully get accepted soon. You can follow here: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/37944

Beyond that there are various dependencies of shotwell that aren't easily available through brew, for example rest and gudev which don't appear to exist anywhere for OS X. I'll have a go at creating formulas for them depending on how the first one goes.

Preview app on 10.6.8 doesn't let you extract images except by selecting then copying and creating a new file from clipboard.

Another way is using the free unix xpdf tools. They come with a utility called pdfimages. I just used it on a PDF and it perfectly extracted the images from the file.

For example...

pdfimages -f 2 -l 2 -j 27487.pdf testname

It extracted the images starting (-f) and ending (-l) on page 2 and saved as JPG.

xpdf is available from HomeBrew.

HTH